[Coco] Use Coco and DriveWire to Create TRS-80 Disks?

[Steven Hirsch]

On Thu, 26 Feb 2015, Rick Thornquist wrote:

> 3. I do have an old 486 with a 5.25 inch drive, and I've tried many
> programs to write a TRS-80 disk, including emulators, but none have
> worked.  I hadn't heard of Imagedisk, though.  I tried it and,
> unfortunately, it didn't work.  It might be because it's a 1.2MB drive,

You can do this with 1.2M drives, but it takes more fussing with the 
data-rate translation parms in ImageDisk.  Also works better if you bulk 
erase the media with a substantive eraser to be sure you don't have bits 
of 40-track data left.  My Nortronics doorstop does a great job on this!



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